The article was originally published in a radical journal called Birth Control review. Today, we might call her an “intersectional” activist and social change pioneer. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's suffrage, as a co-founder and co-editor with her brother Max Eastman of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and co-founder in 1920 of the American Civil Liberties Union. To begin, Crystal Eastman first published her article in 1918. She graduated second in her law school class.

1 Crystal Eastman, “Birth Control in the Feminist Program,” 1918, excerpt In the following article, originally published in the Birth Control Review in 1918, Eastman (a prominent suffragist, lawyer, and peace activist) contended that birth control was a fundamental She produced the source for a large target audience. Eastman was born on June 25, 1881, in Glenora, New York, to Samuel Eastman and Annis Ford Eastman. Eastman was born on June 25, 1881, in Glenora, New York , to Samuel Eastman and Annis Ford Eastman. Crystal Eastman was born in 1881 in Marlboro, Massachusetts, the daughter of two progressive parents. Eastman attended Vassar College, then Columbia University, and finally law school at New York University. The source’s purpose was to inform women that, whether the law stated so or not, they had a choice as to whether or not to conceive a child. Crystal Eastman, “Now We Can Begin” (1920) In the following selection, Crystal Eastman, a socialist and feminist, considered what women should fight for following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote. Her mother, as an ordained minister, had fought against restrictions on women’s roles. Crystal Eastman was an activist and initiator, a leader and champion who left her mark on many of the great social justice movements that defined the twentieth century – labor, feminism, internationalism, free speech, peace. From the dawn of her public life, Eastman […] In contrast, Crystal Eastman was a consistent supporter of socialist politics, the suffragist movement, and feminism throughout her life. In 2000 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls In contrast, Crystal Eastman was a consistent supporter of socialist politics, the suffragist movement, and feminism throughout her life. Crystal Catherine Eastman was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. CRYSTAL EASTMAN: A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE BY AMY ARONSON The social justice issues to which Eastman dedicated her life – gender equality and human rights, nationalism and globalization, political censorship and media control, worker benefits and family balance, and the monumental questions of war, sovereignty, force, and freedom – remain some of the most consequential questions of our own time.